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For Sale: Video Vault of Wal-Mart Inner Workings

Spurned by retailer, production company sells years of footage

By Greg Atwan,  Newser User

Posted Apr 9, 2008 12:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – A tiny production company has decades of behind-the-scenes moments from Wal-Mart on film—and up for grabs. The chain hired Flagler Productions to film its inner workings for corporate events, but fired it two years ago, the Wall Street Journal reports. After Wal-Mart low-balled Flagler on the archive, it’s selling browsing rights to interested bidders, including some curious antagonists.

Wal-Mart says it’s looking into legal options, but the behemoth may be helpless to censor the footage. Attorneys for some of Wal-Mart’s legal adversaries say the tapes depict executives bashing unions and acting especially callous—in one case joking about a gas can that later injured a young boy, in another acknowledging the gender disparity in management that the company had denied in court.

A customer leaves a Wal-Mart in Mountain View, Calif. in this Nov. 7, 2007 file photo.
A customer leaves a Wal-Mart in Mountain View, Calif. in this Nov. 7, 2007 file photo.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
Jane Roswick, center, pauses during her shopping trip to a Little Rock, Ark., Wal-Mart store at a Social Security Administration information table near the store's pharmacy Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008.
Jane Roswick, center, pauses during her shopping trip to a Little Rock, Ark., Wal-Mart store at a Social Security Administration information table near the store's pharmacy Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)
A shopper walks to her car at the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Brunswick, Maine, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.
A shopper walks to her car at the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. in Brunswick, Maine, on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)
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